“I never really think of me as the picture, in fact it’s always just been an image. It’s an image that happens to be me. I don’t feel attached to it at all. Though other people might say, there’s Phil, but I never say that. I don’t think when Monet was doing haystacks, the haystacks thought, hey I’m the haystack — it’s just another haystack! I don’t think it was a portrait in the sense that when Rembrandt did a portrait or when Van Gogh did a portrait those portraits were partly to reveal some character of the person — those portraits were about the person. If this is a portrait at all, and I don’t think it is, its not about revealing the portrait of the person. It’s about revealing the artist.”

- Philip Glass about his portrait by  Chuck Close. Interviewed by Adam Harrison Levy, via Design Observer.